I love this guy. Been reading his blog awhile. He likes to word his achievements in the way that sounds most impressive, but I don't think he'd outright lie about anything. I don't think you'll find anything too sinister here. I like what he stands for, too: using science to make **** easier.

I never heard anything about him "cage fighting", the vibe I got was that he'd done some small scale kickboxing stuff. I don't think he's world class or anything. Just talk to him, he'll be cool about it.

While you're at it though, he claims a BA in Neuroscience and East Asian Studies, Princeton. Bet you $5 it checks out.

I love this guy. Been reading his blog awhile. He likes to word his achievements in the way that sounds most impressive, but I don't think he'd outright lie about anything. I don't think you'll find anything too sinister here. I like what he stands for, too: using science to make **** easier.

I never heard anything about him "cage fighting", the vibe I got was that he'd done some small scale kickboxing stuff. I don't think he's world class or anything. Just talk to him, he'll be cool about it.

While you're at it though, he claims a BA in Neuroscience and East Asian Studies, Princeton. Bet you $5 it checks out.

He never claims he received BA in neuroscience and east asian studies from Princeton. That is a fact. As for cage fighter and blah blah claims. Google them and you'll see plenty.

Some of forum member are from princeton and one of them did meet him. He is just a guy looking to maximize how much money he can earn. Kudos to him for that. Aside, the book is total garbage.

Well, I can shed some light on his National Chinese Kickboxing Champion claim. He mentions it in his book, and he is quite straight-forward about it - he said he wasn't much good at kickboxing and entered it on a dare.

His principles for winning are actually quite clever... study the rules very closely and find the loopholes. He did, and saw that you win if the other guy goes out of the 'ring'(off the stage, in this case) 3 times in a round, he loses. So, as he outweighed all his opponents (he was fighting people 3 weight classes below his real weight because he lost 28 pounds prior to weigh-in using dehydration methods and then rehydrated for the fights), he just charged into them and pushed them off the stage, and so won every bout by TKO. He didn't claim that it was because of his skill, but his brains.... (which is basically what his book is about).

I quite like his book, actually. He's not a total fraud, but basically he made his money and then set about looking for how to enjoy life - training in different martial arts full-time for short periods is one of the things he does. (Preferably in exotic locations where things are cheaper, getting other people to run his business). Whether or not his business is on the up and up is another question.
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